Amber Wolf - Wong, Ursula
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In the shadow of World War II, Lithuania barely survives the Germans. Then the Russians come. 1944. The Russians occupy Lithuania in a reign of terror. Ludmelia Kudirka must watch while soldiers murder her mother. But she escapes. She flees to the forest, knowing she won't be safe for long. Terrified, Ludmelia stumbles upon a ragtag band of farmers armed with stolen weapons to fight the Russians. But how can they defeat the largest army in the world? Ludmelia must decide whether to join them in an impossible fight for freedom. Or to live the rest of her life in fear under the cloak of Soviet…mehr

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In the shadow of World War II, Lithuania barely survives the Germans. Then the Russians come. 1944. The Russians occupy Lithuania in a reign of terror. Ludmelia Kudirka must watch while soldiers murder her mother. But she escapes. She flees to the forest, knowing she won't be safe for long. Terrified, Ludmelia stumbles upon a ragtag band of farmers armed with stolen weapons to fight the Russians. But how can they defeat the largest army in the world? Ludmelia must decide whether to join them in an impossible fight for freedom. Or to live the rest of her life in fear under the cloak of Soviet communism. Based on actual events, Amber Wolf is a historic powerhouse of sacrifice, survival, and love of country.
Autorenporträt
Ursula is a retired engineer who writes gripping stories about strong women struggling against impossible odds to achieve their dreams. Her work has appeared in Everyday Fiction, Spinetingler Magazine, and the popular Insanity Tales anthologies. Her award-winning novel, Purple Trees, exposes a stark side of rural New England life in the experiences of a young woman who struggles for normalcy despite a vicious and hidden past. After losing her parents, Lily Phelps grows up fast to find work and build a future, but her secrets threaten every one she loves, and even her very life. Ursula taps her Eastern European heritage in her WW II novel, Amber Wolf. Destitute after her parents are taken by Russian soldiers, young Ludmelia Kudirka joins the farmers fighting for freedom in a David-and-Goliath struggle against the mighty Soviet war machine. For more about Ursula and her prize-winning flash fiction stories, visit her Reaching Readers Blog on http: //ursulawong.wordpress.com.